Hip-confining corset



I my, 19, 1925. r

" M. J. REYNOLDS HIP CONFINING CORSET F115;! July 19, 1923 Patented May 19, 1925.

- UNITED STATES.

(1,538,353 PATENT, OFFICE.

MICHAEL J. REYNOLDS, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO STROUSE, ADLER 8c CO.,'OF NEW HAVEN,;CONNECTICUT, FIR-M COMPOSED F ISAAC M. ULLMAN AND LOUIS M. ULLMAN, OF NEW HAVEN, GON'NECTICUT, AND GEORGE MEYER, or NEW- YORK, N. Y.

HIP-CONFINING CORSET.

Application filed July 19, 1923. Serial No. 652,571.

To aZZwYtom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL J. REYNOLDS,

a citizen-of the United States, residing at W est Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hip-Confining Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent in Fig. 1 a perspective View of my improved corset, shown as applied to a figure.

Fig. 2 a broken top view of the front portion of the corset, the front corset-body sections and the superimposed diaphragmreducing strap being shown as unhooked.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of corsets known as hip-coir fining corsets, to distinguish them from bust-confining corsets, the object of my present invention being to combine a simple, convenient and effective diaphragmreducing feature with a hip-confining corset.

Vith these ends in view, my invention consists in a hip-confining corset characterized by its provision, immediately adjacent after described.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, I. employ a hip-confining corset of any approved construction, its complementary front sections 5 and 6 being respectively provided with the loop 7' and stud- .members 8 of any ordinary corset-clasp. Immediately adjacent to the upper edge of such a corset, I superimpose thereupon a horizontally-arranged, tensional, diaphragmreducing strap made entirely independent of the corset proper, and having two main members adapted tobe fastened and unfastened independently of the corset-clasps, whatever they may be; As shown, the leftband member of the strap comprises a nonelastic centerrpiece 9 having its free inner end provided with eyes 10 and having its outer end attached to an elastic strap 11 to its upper edge, with a superimposed dia-' permanently stitched at 12 to the front section 5 of the corset proper. The upper and lower edges of the center-piece areinclined toward each other from its median line, which is also the median line of the said corset proper. The left-hand portion of the strap consists of a short fasteningstrip 13 furnished, at its inner end, with hooks 14, and mounted upon ail-elastic strap 15, stitched at 16 at its outer end to the front section 6 of the corset proper. As shown, the doubly-tapered center-piece 9 is stiffened by bones 17. by which it is prevented from buckling under the strains imposed upon it in the use of the corset.

As thus constructed and arranged, the diaphragm-reducing strap is localized in its action upon the diaphragm, which it tends to keep in place and reduce. The stresses imposed upon the body of the wearer by it do not substantially affect the rest of the corset.

In the use of my improvement, after the corset proper has been positioned and' hooked, the two members of the supplementary strap are placed under sufficient A longitudinal tension to bring their hooks and eyes into position for being engaged.

Thereafter, they continue to exert a constant effort to reduce the diaphragm of the wearer 7 in proportion to their tension.

I claim: The combination with an open-front,hipconiining corset, the respective front edges of which are provided with fastening means,

whereby it is fastened in front on the median line of the figure of the wearer: of a horizontally-arranged. d iaphragm-reducing strap superimposed upon the upper portion of. the front of the said corset, adjacent to the upper edge thereof and comprising a non-elastic centerpiece, the upper and lower edges of which are inclined toward each other from its median line. which coincides with thepmedian line of the corset, a nonelastic fastening-strip located ad acent to one end of the said center-piece. fastening means applied to the adjacent edges of the said center-piece and fastening-strip, whereby the said strap is fastened and unfastened independently of the corset proper. an elastic strap permanently attached to the opposite'end of the center-piece and to the front the said strap exercises localized pressure section ot the COISGt. and an elastic strap In testimony whereof, I have signed this permanently ttach d t th it d specification in the presence of two subsci'iti- 10 of the said fastening-strip, and the coinpleg Wltnessesmental front s ction of the corset Whereb e i Y MICHAEL J. REYNOLDS.

upon the cliaphragin of the wearer Without lVitnesses:

substantially affecting the hip-reducing HARRIETTE F. TYRRILL, action of the corset proper. JOSEPH H. ULLMAN. 

